Ecological Internet’s Campaign to End Ancient Forest Logging Gaining Support

Ecological Internet’s campaign to end ancient forest logging as the keystone response to the climate and biodiversity crises continues to gain both scientific credibility and prominence within the environmental movement. A new atlas from the UN Environment Programme shows not surprisingly that most of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity and carbon storage hotspots [ark] are found in Earth’s last great primary and old growth forest expanses. Find ways to maintain these areas in an intact condition while meeting local development aspirations, without stealing their land, and the world is well on the way to global ecological sustainability.

For several years Ecological Internet has informed the forest movement and the world that perhaps the greatest impediment to doing so is greenwash perpetuated by the likes of Greenpeace, WWF, RAN and FSC that the world’s last primeval ecosystems should be logged. The Ecologist magazine notes in their current issue Ecological Internet’s campaign discrediting the myth that ancient forests can be logged in an environmentally acceptable manner. To make the green mainstream media after years of ridicule (Greenpeace would never support ancient forest logging, hah) is gratifying. There we get FSC’s first response to two years of campaigning, answering how logging ancient forests benefits the environment:

“The FSC counters that in order to be effective as the demand for timber grows, it is forced to work with industrial logging companies and allow the sustainable cutting of old-growth and primary forests… allowing logging places an economic value on the forest ecosystem, which in turn helps avoid the ground being clear-cut for pasture of crop monocultures.”

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Related Reading:

Biodiversity of the Southeastern United States: Upland Terrestrial Communities (Bankruptcy Practice Library) (v. 1)

Biodiversity and abundance of terrestrial isopods along a gradient of disturbance in Sabah, East Malaysia [An article from: European Journal of Soil Biology]